http://www.anshulpatel.in/tags/open-source/Recent content in Open-Source on Anshul PatelHugoenSat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000http://www.anshulpatel.in/posts/introducing_droidllama/Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000http://www.anshulpatel.in/posts/introducing_droidllama/<p>If you are a self-hosting enthusiast or a homelab tinkerer, you likely have one or two older Android smartphones gathering dust in a drawer. In my previous posts, I’ve shared how these devices make <a href="../mobile_soc_for_homelab/" >fantastic, cheap homelab hardware</a> and how to <a href="../opensourcing_termux_api_exporter/" >monitor them the Prometheus way</a>. Today, I want to take this mobile-first infrastructure setup to the next level.</p> <p>What if your smartphone could serve as a dedicated, local Large Language Model (LLM) server for your automated home network?</p> <p>Meet <strong>DroidLlama</strong>, a high-performance, long-running REST API server for Android that implements the Ollama API specification. By wrapping a lightweight model runner in a persistent Android service, DroidLlama allows any device on your local network to use your smartphone as a private, local AI provider. 🚀</p>